Gobinda Deb Krishna Halder@Gobinda Chandra Halder v. State Of West Bengal & ORS

12-05-2022 ct no. 13 Sl. 9 sp WPA 17527 of 2011 Gobinda Deb Krishna Halder @ Gobinda Chandra Halder -VersusState of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Vivekananda Bose, Mr. Ratikanta Pal, Ms. Sarda Sha ...for the petitioner Mr. Amitesh Banerjee, ld. Sr. St. Counsel, Mr. Tarak Karan ...for the State Mr. I. Hossain, Mr. Sanket Sarowgi, Mr. Subhajit Ghosh ...for the respondent nos. 22 The petitioner seeks regulation of certain private film exhibitors, for charging of exorbitant rates for exhibiting films in Bengali.

It is submitted that there ought to be a regulatory mechanism put in place by the State, to promote films of the nature produced by the petitioner, to enable them to compete with films of other languages.

This Court is of the view that there exists no vested rights of the nature that have been asserted by the petitioner against the respondents.

Since the matter has been pursued since 2011, the petitioner may make a representation to the respondents afresh and take further steps in accordance with law.

The writ petition is, therefore, disposed of without any other orders.

There shall be no order as to costs.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

(Rajasekhar Mantha, J.)